Owen Seymour Arthur - A Barbadian par excellence!

By  Stanley Collymore 

Few politicians on their death,

less so in the course of their 

lifetime,  and especially so 

during their own term of 

office; and additionally 

outstandingly too, as 

a stupendously - so

transformatively 

democratically 

elected Prime 

Minister, of 

a patently 

beloved

country  

and thoroughly command 

the natural abundant 

and unassailable 

respect, deep 

adoration, consummate

love, and the utmost 

confidence in what 

they were doing 

within and as 

well outside 

the visibly 

critically 

crucial 

areas 

that comprise the major 

constitutional areas 

of parliamentary 

democracy as 

you did and 

will justly 

be a part 

of your eternal 

legacy Owen 

Seymour 

Arthur!   

Barbados' longest serving 

Prime Ministe; similarly 

too, its distinguished 

and a very capably 

administered in 

that political 

role, its official and a very 

impressive as well as 

an adeptly skilled 

Parliamentary 

Opposition 

Leader. 

But previous to all of this, an 

outstanding Senator, elected  

member of parliament for 

the constituency of St. 

Peter, that until his 

voluntary resignation as 

an MP, he continuously 

held, and assiduously 

served for well over 

33 years. Next, to 

fittingly excel in 

an appropriate 

appointment 

of a learned

Academic  

at the Cave Hill Campus in 

Barbados: a constituent 

part of the University 

of the West Indies while also 

serving as a distinguished, 

highly successful, a most 

commendable and, as 

well, an irrefutably

too in the process 

an impressively

commited and 

key Caricom 

Statesman!  

(C) Stanley V. Collymore 

9 August 2020. 

Author's Remarks:

Achievements galore to remember you endearingly for Sir, and I'm absolutely sure that every patriotic Bajan will do just that! 

So this is not goodbye my friend, and fellow Bajan, but rather an earnest au revoir to you until we meet up again with you in the After-life, our now departed but distinguished leader. 

Prime Minister, mentor, fellow Bajan patriot, dedicated CARICOM coordinator and statesman and an eternal friend. The late Right Honourable Owen Seymour Arthur. 

With your work on Earth now completed, rest in eternal peace with the Angels in what's now your similarly celestial heaven! 

The late former Prime Minister the Right Honourable Professor Owen Arthur is to receive a state funeral on Friday the 14 August 2020. The service will commence at 2PM at St. Peter's Church with the burial at the Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens. 

Previous to the aforementioned events the body of the deceased will lie in state at the 1639 established and continuously, thereafter, ongoing 381 year old Barbados Parliament, located in the country's capital Bridgetown, on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 August 2020 between the hours of 10 AM and 4 PM. 

A virtual condolence book, in addition to several normal ones at strategic and official government locations across the island of Barbados, is also available at: owenarthurtributes.bb for friends and well wishers around the world. 

Owen Seymour Arthur  -  17 October 1949 - 27 July 2020.